Just awful - mind numbingly awful

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2014)

Colourful, loud (Lots of actors shout a lot)boring, not engaging, over- long or so it seemed and frankly a huge waste of money and talent. I expected so much more from Guillermo del Toro but this film spectacularly under-delivers on virtually every aspect. Some of the acting is atrocious, the characters cliché and the story almost non-existent. Idris Elba looks like a man who got a nice pay packet but almost instantly regretted signing up for the movie, almost as much as I regretted watching it. How it rates over 7 on IMDb is a real puzzle. It is a shocking film, shockingly bad that is. For an idea on how to create a great creature feature watch Cloverfield.